NSF-funded grant program aims to bolster STEM education at community colleges

July 10, 2012

By 2018, America will need a stronger STEM curriculum at the community college level that is "more tightly linked with competencies necessary for STEM jobs," according to a recent report by Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce. In an effort to help build capacity for STEM education at the sub-baccalaureate level, Mentorlinks, a Congressionally mandated, NSF-funded program administered by the American Association of Community Colleges, has achieved "significant, lasting results" by investing in a select number of STEM programs at community colleges throughout the country.